{"id":1226,"date":"2020-09-10T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/add-date-of-birth-in-registration-form-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:05:45","slug":"add-date-of-birth-in-registration-form-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/add-date-of-birth-in-registration-form-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Date of Birth in Registration Form in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The date of birth customer attribute can be made mandatory by a store admin for multiple reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identify customers\u2019 age group<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gather customers\u2019 details for marketing strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Target customers based on the products appropriate for their age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing the age of customers helps merchants to launch marketing campaign age group wise. It is also extremely beneficial to recognize the psychographic purchasing behaviour of customers based on age groups. For instance, E-commerce store owners come to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What products are being purchased by the people whose age is between 18 and 24?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the Average Order Value of customers whose age is between 25 and 30?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magento 2\u00a0allows merchants to enable or disable the \u201cShow Date of Birth\u201d option in a customer account. Likewise one more such field to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/enable-middle-name-in-registration-form-in-magento-2\/\">Enable Middle Name in Registration Form in Magento 2<\/a>\u00a0helps add middle name and to show honour to that person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, if your store has an age restriction policy, using the method to&nbsp;<em><strong>add date of birth in registration form in Magento 2<\/strong><\/em>, you can set validations for the same!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps to Add Date of Birth in Registration Form in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/How-to-Add-Date-of-Birth-in-Registration-Form-in-Magento-2-1024x402.png\" alt=\"How to Add Date of Birth in Registration Form in Magento 2\" class=\"wp-image-10344\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Login<\/strong>&nbsp;to Magento 2 admin panel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to<strong>&nbsp;Stores &gt; Settings &gt; Customers<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>Customer<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Customer Configuration<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expand&nbsp;<strong>Name and Address Options<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set Required in the field&nbsp;<strong>\u201cShow Date of Birth\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Save<\/strong>&nbsp;the configuration<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also set the required in the field&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/show-suffix-field-in-magento-2\/\">show suffix field in Magento 2<\/a>&nbsp;to add suffix like \u201cJr\u201d, \u201cSr\u201d and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, the \u201cDate of Birth\u201d is displayed in the registration form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Date-of-Birth-in-Registration-Form-in-Magento-2.png\" alt=\"Date of Birth in Registration Form in Magento 2\" class=\"wp-image-10468\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another modification that you may want is to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/add-label-on-all-lines-in-street-address-in-magento-2-checkout-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">add label on all lines in street address in Magento 2 checkout page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also refer to the video tutorial to add date of birth in registration form in Magento 2 from our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLBTOxSAJzwEjM5MilmEqj98Ib80tKBu7r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Magento 2 video tutorial<\/a>&nbsp;series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Add Date of Birth in Registration Form in Magento 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ffndjlo6LuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, do share this post with Magento Community via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/change-number-of-lines-in-street-address-in-magento-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to Change Number of Lines in Street Address in Magento 2<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/show-gender-in-customer-accounts-in-magento-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to Show Gender in Customer Accounts in Magento 2<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/enable-magento-2-telephone-validation-in-customer-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to Enable Magento 2 Telephone Validation in Customer Registration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date of birth customer attribute can be made mandatory by a store admin for multiple reasons: Knowing the age of customers helps merchants to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}